The turning point in the Corona del Mar High boys' basketball season came on Jan. 3, when the team played without its two big men. The game marked the Sea Kings' first in the New Year, and Matt Ctvrtlik was one of those players missing.

Ryan Stone is the second member of his family to play basketball for Coach Ryan Schachter at Corona del Mar High. Schachter is the first to let you know that Ryan is the complete opposite of his older brother, Max, in every way you can imagine on the...

Two unions representing service workers and teachers asked separately during a meeting of the school board Tuesday to push Newport-Mesa Unified School District officials toward contract talks, a task complicated by the recent firing of the district's...

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — From a house in the hills in La Cañada Flintridge, the Corona del Mar High boys' basketball team first caught a bird's eye view of the campus of its next opponent. The Sea Kings stopped by the place of Kevin Fults' grandma...

HUNTINGTON BEACH — The last time Corona del Mar High met Ocean View in a boys' basketball game was at an early tournament two seasons ago. Later on that season, each program reached the semifinals in their respective CIF Southern Section playoff...

It was a Saturday, a day that Heather Besen expected would unfold like any other.
Until she heard a strange moan coming from her son's room upstairs.
Safvet, a junior at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, had just returned home from playing soccer. The 16-year-old was making a name for himself on the club team he played for in Irvine, the Pateadores.
Last year, he'd led the team in goals and assists. College scouts were taking note.
So on Feb. 7, Besen wasn't sure what to make of the...

Ski week tends to wipe out any semblance of a home-court edge for the Corona del Mar High boys' basketball team during this time of the season. With school off this week, students actually showed up to support the Sea Kings in the opening round of the CIF Southern Section Division 3A playoffs.
Sea Kings Coach Ryan Schachter views ski week as more like a preview for spring break for students.
"They aren't on the slopes," Schachter said the day before his Sea Kings faced Bellflower. "There's no snow....

Getting a No. 2 seed doesn't always mean you have a chance at finishing No. 1. Just ask Corona del Mar High Coach Ryan Schachter.
Two days after his Sea Kings earned a No. 2 seed in the CIF Southern Section Division 3A boys' basketball playoffs, Schachter didn't sound too optimistic on Tuesday about his team winning its first section title since his first season eight years ago. The seed is the highest a Schachter-led CdM team has received in the postseason.
"Being a No. 2 seed, you would like to...

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GIRLS' SOCCER
Sage Hill 6, Oxford Academy 0
Lexi Magliarditi scored a hat trick in the Academy League win for the Lightning, the league champions who went undefeated in league with no goals allowed, Thursday.
Rachael Jaffe, Maya Roston and Ellie Kline also scored for Sage Hill (14-4-2, 10-0-0 in league), while Claire Novotny had two assists.
Lauren Thunen, Marin Burns and Roston also had an assist and goalie Kekai Whitford made five saves.
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Northwood 2, Corona del Mar 1
The Sea Kings...

Next week the Corona del Mar High boys' volleyball team will hold its first practice indoors. Ryan Moss, one of the program's top players, won't be there because he will be with the boys' basketball team at CdM.
The first practice for the school's volleyball team is on Monday. On that same day, Moss will be preparing for the CIF Southern Section Division 3A playoffs with his basketball team.
Moss, a 6-foot-7 senior, is bound to USC to play volleyball, but this season he has shown his commitment to CdM...

Beating Academy League rival St. Margaret's is a goal of any Sage Hill team. In girls' soccer, though, that goal hasn't always been so realistic.
The Tartans have been the class of the league for years, winning four CIF Southern Section titles since 2006. When Claire Novotny came into the Sage Hill program two years ago, she learned just how intense the rivalry was.
"I remember my freshman year, the captains had a meeting before the season started," Novotny said. "They listed on a white board, that we...

There are several great identifiers that accompany Aaron Peirsol.
Five-time Olympic gold medalist.
World-record holder in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke.
World champion.
Now add another label: high school boys' swim coach.
That's right, Peirsol is now a coach, and he's very happy to return to his alma mater to guide the boys' team at Newport Harbor High, Principal Sean Boulton said Friday night.
The school reached out to Peirsol to find out what he thought about the idea of coaching the...